Vanicela xenadelpha Meyrick, 1889
ROESLERSTAMMIIDAE,   TINEOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
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and
Stella Crossley

Vanicela xenadelpha
(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

The adult moths of this species have brown forewings, each crossed by two white zigzag lines, and with a white area at the tornus, and a broad white line along the costa The hindwings are brown. The head and prothorax are white. The antennae are as long as the forewings. The wingspan is about 1.5 cms.

Vanicela xenadelpha
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species occurs in Australia in

  • Queensland, and
  • New South Wales.


    Further reading :

    Edward Meyrick,
    Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera,
    Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,
    Volume 21, 1889, pp. 166-167, No. 18.


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    (written 25 March 2019, updated 8 July 2021)